Coaching basketball at any level is not an easy task. The coach must find a suitable offense, defense, assistant coach and perhaps most importantly, gain respect from his players. All of these facets of the game become even more intensified at the NCAA...

He has coached the NIU men's tennis team to two straight Mid-Continent Conference championships, and now he is moving on to bigger and better things. NIU men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher told The Northern Star Tuesday that he will resign from his position...

The NIU volleyball team stepped out of the Mid-Continent Conference on Tuesday night and stepped all over the DePaul Lady Blue Demons in straight sets by scores of 15-4, 15-4 and 16-14. The win extends the Huskies' impressive winning streak to 13 matches....

The 4-8-1 NIU soccer team will have its hands full today as it takes on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers at 3 p.m. at the Huskie Practice Field. Once again, the John Lewang Memorial Trophy will be up for grabs. Lewang was the soccer coach...

The NIU soccer team was in good spirits looking back on this past weekend's success. Two conference victories by a combined score of 5-1 made them feel good and sleep easy. "We found some life," said head coach Willy Roy. "We had a good effort". Roy was...

Six games have passed and it's been a wild and crazy season for the NIU football team. The Huskies sit poised at the .500 mark with a 3-3 record just over halfway through their season. They have surprised and have been surprised, but head coach Charlie...

Louisville's Persimmon Ridge Golf Club proved to be a tough course Monday, and consequently, the scores were high after the first round of the 36-hole Persimmon Ridge Intercollegiate. Down in the heart of the bluegrass state, NIU's men's golf team finished...

The NIU volleyball team will play its third match in four days at Alumni Hall tonight against its long-time rival, the DePaul Blue Demons. NIU leads the series 13-8. DePaul comes into the match with an 11-11 record but have defeated four of its last five...

The Huskie soccer team had an extremely successful weekend with two victories—making it three in a row for coach Willy Roy and his men. NIU opened up Friday with a 3-0 victory over Mid-Continent Conference foe Valparaiso and then defeated second-place...

"It's a nice step. Really, for me, the season's more important, how we do, how the team is playing. We did play very well, so that was nice to go out with a really clean victory over Wright State." NIU volleyball head coach Pete Waite has gone at it for...

Before Friday night's match with Eastern Illinois University, two new banners were raised to honor the achievements of last year's volleyball team. The 1991 Mid-Continent Conference championship banner, along with the NIVC tournament banner both hang...

If you turned to the back page looking for a preview, forget it. There will be no football this weekend in DeKalb because the Huskies have the weekend off. Despite the fact that NIU has gotten back on the winning track with its 23-10 victory last Saturday...